UNM vs. PRI, LNC, CNO, NWLI, CIA, MET, AFL, PRU, PFG, and NWG
Should you be buying Unum Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Unum Group include Primerica (PRI), Lincoln National (LNC), CNO Financial Group (CNO), National Western Life Group (NWLI), Citizens (CIA), MetLife (MET), Aflac (AFL), Prudential Financial (PRU), Principal Financial Group (PFG), and NatWest Group (NWG). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Primerica (NYSE:PRI) and Unum Group (NYSE:UNM) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, profitability, risk, valuation, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Unum Group had 6 more articles in the media than Primerica. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Unum Group and 7 mentions for Primerica. Primerica's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Unum Group's score of 0.55 indicating that Unum Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Primerica presently has a consensus price target of $260.50, suggesting a potential upside of 4.00%. Unum Group has a consensus price target of $60.44, suggesting a potential upside of 13.53%. Given Primerica's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Unum Group is more favorable than Primerica.
Unum Group has higher revenue and earnings than Primerica. Unum Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Primerica, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
90.9% of Primerica shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.6% of Unum Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Primerica shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Unum Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Primerica has a net margin of 20.44% compared to Primerica's net margin of 10.52%. Unum Group's return on equity of 27.35% beat Primerica's return on equity.
Primerica has a beta of 1.09, meaning that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Unum Group has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Primerica pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Unum Group pays an annual dividend of $1.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Primerica pays out 18.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Unum Group pays out 21.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Primerica has raised its dividend for 15 consecutive years and Unum Group has raised its dividend for 16 consecutive years. Unum Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Primerica received 429 more outperform votes than Unum Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.70% of users gave Primerica an outperform vote while only 46.71% of users gave Unum Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Primerica beats Unum Group on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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